Around 4,000 years ago, women in Nubia were using tumplines, a form of head strap, to carry around goods and young children.

This civilization grew in power just as Egypt ... then the second city of the Kingdom of Kush, whose capital was at Napata. 3rd Century B.C. As space in Meroë’s south cemetery runs out ...

A dazzling civilization flourished in Sudan nearly ... In Meroe itself, once the capital of the Kingdom of Kush, the road divides the city. To the east is the royal cemetery, packed with close ...

Researchers examined the remains of 30 people (16 males and 14 females) buried in a Nubian Bronze Age cemetery in Sudan. One ...

This is north of the cemetery but still within the kingdom of Kush. People in modern times still use tumplines. The practice is "still alive today in rural regions of Africa, Asia, and Latin ...

These five archaeological sites, stretching over more than 60 km in the Nile valley, are testimony to the Napatan (900 to 270 BC) and Meroitic (270 BC to 350 AD) cultures, of the second kingdom of ...

Saf's amazing poem takes us to the Kingdom of Kush, an ancient civilisation in Africa, just south of Ancient Egypt. It is often called Nubia and had two different capital cities - the first ...